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An artists' summer residency programme which proved to be a great success when it ran last year for the first time at GMIT Mayo has been launched again for 2015.

Athlone’s Luan Gallery will launch its first exhibition of the year this Friday January 16 at 6pm.  

Ten artists, a film production company, a curator, and a photographer have been selected for the GMIT Centre for Creative Arts & Media summer residency programmes.

Castlebar’s first silent movie theatre, an all-female tug-of-war battle by Hat Factory workers in 1958, a street crammed with flying linen flags and an interactive light display in a derelict building are all part of a unique arts project being launched in Castlebar tomorrow (Saturday).

A new exhibition of works by American painter Jill Madden has opened at the Custom House Studios in Westport, and it will run until September 2.

The Way at Westport Film Club

Every year Mayo County Council offers two special bursary awards to artists born or living in Mayo, to enable them to spend two weeks at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, County Monaghan. Each bursary covers all board and lodging expenses for a two-week period, plus the use of a studio if relevant. There are a variety of work spaces including studios, a music room for composers and musicians, a multi-media room and a large rehearsal and performance space.

Double Vision is a show of work by past and present students of art and design at GMIT Castlebar. Since it was established in 2000, the course has enriched the artistic experience of many people living in Mayo and beyond, who have taken advantage of this opportunity to engage locally with art on an academic level.

Next is the title of the new exhibition of paintings, prints and more which opened yesterday, August 26, at The Wright Gallery on the Quay in Westport. The show is the latest offering by the Wright Artists collective, a group of locally-based artists comprising Breda Burns, Mags Duffy, Betty Gannon, Pam Gray, Claire Griffin, Mary O’Grady, Gráinne O’Reilly, Susie Quinn, Sinéad Wall and Ian Wieczorek. This vibrant new exhibition is the third in an ongoing series planned for the artist-run gallery, located in Sue Wright’s former craft shop situated directly opposite the Custom House Studios.

Bellacorick: Impressions of a Place is the title of a new exhibition of drawing, painting, and photography by Betty Gannon, Michael Gannon, and Ian Wieczorek, on show at Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, from Friday March 5 to Wednesday March 31. The exhibition is the result of authorised visits to the decommissioned power station during 2008 and 2009, and the three Mayo artists have created their own personal visual responses to the iconic building’s structure and former function.